the autoimmune hippie.

Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts. . . Practice resurrection. – Wendell Berry

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  • it is not our weekend.

    Yesterday morning I learned that my friend Amy’s husband passed away and I am just heartbroken for her and her daughter and the rest of their family. Some things I will never understand. I can’t imagine trying to deal with all that she has with medical issues that her husband has been suffering from for… Read more

  • oh, the anxiety.

    I can’t sleep tonight. The anxiety disorder that plagues me more often than I care to admit is running amok and I am having the worst time trying to get a handle on it. As y’all know, I’ve had the flu-y flu flu – and it’s lingering. My temp continues to randomly shoot up –… Read more

  • my spoonie christmukkah 2018 hopefully helpful gift giving guide <3

    So, y’all, the flu still has me Laid. Out. But I actually made it to the shower yesterday in anticipation of the SEC Championship Game – even though I still felt like Hale – and I was super excited: And this whole getting ready thing turned out to be a MAJOR overdoing it. Henry and… Read more

  • freaking. flu.

    The freaking flu again, y’all. 😦 Where I used to be totally “immune” to it (for lack of a better way to say it),  as in I could work with patients with it every day and not catch it for literally YEARS, it is apparently my Kryptonite now. And I’m starting to settle in and… Read more

  • letting go and working through.

    The past two days have been filled with working on lots of things for my wellness practice. I began yesterday with making lists, first of things I needed to gather from Apple Radio – because no great work can be accomplished without the proper tunage 😉 – and then of the books I needed to… Read more

  • lots of news – and a lil’ snow!!! :)

    I have so many things I want to tell y’all. . . and I will. But, first, here’s the headline in my world today. . . I went to sleep – a full 24 hours of chemo coma, more or less. . . And woke up to (a lil’ bit of) SNOW!!!! I am VERY excited… Read more

  • i think i’ll remember this past week as the week that everything changed.

    Just this past Halloween – a couple of weeks ago – I shared this picture of myself, standing in my costume, ready to go with Sara and Henry and the rest of our bunch for a little bit: That night, if you had seen me walk, it would have been VERY slow – and I… Read more

  • navigating when i really can’t walk. and learning to be speedracer. and amazing jen hatmaker outings. and grace.

    First, I don’t know how to describe this shuffle and slide and hold on to everything-and-everybody-near-me thing I’ve got going on right now when I try to “walk” – but my mobility has gone to hell in a handbasket in the past couple of days (not that it was great before – but this is… Read more

  • the medical news just sucked yesterday.

    Yesterday, several friends on Instagram were doing the #OneDayHH thing, where they were posting pictures of just their regular activities throughout the day. And I had planned to participate as well yesterday morning. So I took these adorable pictures: When we were out at the grocery store, I began to realize I was in big… Read more

  • oh my word. what a thursday morning – and, owww, my foot. :(

    Originially, this was going to be a political type post (fear not, that has totally changed). However, Monday night was a bad weather night in my state. What that means for me is this: When Mr. James Spann starts saying things like “potential long-track tornadoes” days in advance of a system that is going to… Read more